Re: [gentoo-desktop] Put program in menu

[J.A.H.]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 01:16 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
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>>J.A.H. wrote:
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>>>Why when I emerge an x-windows package it only sometimes installs itself
>>>in the gnome menu system (depending upon the program). Other times I
>>>have to manually  put the program in in addition to manually selecting
>>>an icon to go with it in the gnome menu.  Some of my installed x-windows
>>>programs are not in my gnome menu so for that reason I do not know they
>>>are installed after I install them. What is the recommended (gentoo)
>>>procedure for setting up the little program launchers in the gnome menu???
>>>
>>>
>>You are probably after the make_desktop_entry function in eutils.eclass.
>> You can submit patches for ebuilds that don't install desktop entries
>>to bugs.gentoo.org.
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>A *much* better solution is to have upstream create a .desktop entry.  I
>know that most people really don't like having bugs for the menu entries
>being filed, while others don't care either way.  Personally, I'd add
>them, but going through and carpet-bombing bugzilla with trivial things
>such as this that really belong upstream will probably get at least
>somebody upset with you.  Personally, I would go upstream with the
>package authors and have them provide a .desktop file instead of having
>us do it.
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You know what... I could not find a complete GUI program to automate
making entries in the gnome menu system. Do I have to manually edit
gnome configuration files just to put a quick launch button in the gnome
menu!? Doing that would be trivial... I would not mind submitting bug
reports but now I am confused about who to contact about that next time.

Is this the right mail-list for a topic such as this? The gentoo-user
mail list had a lot of volume when I was subscribed to it last time. Is
this list for any subject about using X-Windows.